The Witch Hunter System
chapter-729

Gehenna Realm, Evernight Territory

After the battle between Abaddon and Hecate reached a conclusion, only half of Vladigold City remained standing. The other half had been destroyed beyond recognition, along with the loss of sixty million lives.

Such unprecedented destruction and death undoubtedly caused Vladigold City's development to regress significantly.

In fact, the death of sixty million livestock was a far greater loss than the destruction of the building infrastructures. After all, to the vampire, blood wasn't just food but currency. Sixty million lives was a tremendous amount of wealth.

Alas, it was all gone.

Of course, Vladigold City could recoup its losses by transferring sixty million livestock from other livestock cities in the Evernight Territory. However, doing so would also create a blood deficiency in those other cities.

Fortunately, a loss of sixty million livestock was far from breaking the vampires' blood sustainability. That said, a heavier blood consumption limit had been imposed on the city due to the loss, causing dissatisfaction among the local vampires.

Nevertheless, that also gave Abaddon all the more reason to invade Pangea.

Hecate's interference had greatly delayed and affected his plans, but she also strengthened his desire to conquer Pangea.

It was the only way to recoup his losses and more.

…

When Second-rank Melchior Albatroz returned to Vladigold City with the surviving members of the Night Parade, they were shocked by the state of the city.

At that time, Abaddon and Hecate's battle was still ongoing. Everyone could do nothing but flee or take shelter deep underground.

Ultimately, in the battle between the two Great Devils, Abaddon was forced to use his trump card against Hecate. Although Abaddon successfully forced Hecate to retreat, he still paid a hefty price.

Hecate got exactly what she demanded from him before she retreated—all ten thousand drops of divine blood essence from Abaddon's body and not a drop less.

Abaddon had originally thought his trump card, his third Transcendent Divine Power, could overpower Hecate since it was derived from higher law. However, he did not expect Hecate to have a trump card that wasn't inferior to his own.

Hecate had fused two Transcendent Divine Powers to create an even more powerful one.

The clash between Hecate's fused Transcendent Divine Power and Abaddon's higher-law Transcendent Divine Power surprisingly ended with Abaddon losing. Although they both suffered heavy injuries, Hecate made off with Abaddon's left arm.

Since then, Abaddon had been recuperating in his ancient floating castle. A hint of fear could be found in his eyes as he soaked in a blood pond.

He didn't expect Hecate's comprehensive ability to be so heaven-defying.

Hecate comprehended seven Transcendent Divine Powers and revealed she could fuse two to create a more powerful one. He didn't dare imagine if she had stronger trump cards, such as fusing three of her seven Transcendent Divine Powers.

If Hecate had such means, the power ranking of the Seven Great Devils had to be re-evaluated.

…

As Abaddon recuperated in the blood pond of his ancient floating castle, Melchior and the other surviving members of the Night Parade could only wait anxiously outside until he was done.

However, Abaddon discovered his injury was far more tricky to recover from. At the same time, he also knew Pangea's invasion couldn't be delayed further. As such, he was forced to wake up another Vampire Lord from their slumber to take over the reins in his stead.

Twelve hours after Vampire Lord Klaus Albatroz, the Second Progenitor, woke up, most of Vladigold City's matters were quickly settled, and multiple vampire armies had been organized.

Afterward, the first army was quickly deployed to Pangea to subjugate the Great Ratholos Empire's imperial capital.

"Ancestor, it's been an hour since the first army departed. However, it has not sent back any news since then. I'm afraid the first army had encountered some trouble," Melchior Albatroz mentioned on the side of the Second Progenitor.

Although he did his best to hide his anxiety and fear, they were still noticed by Klaus Albatroz.

However, Klaus Albatroz temporarily ignored it.

"Un," Klaus Albatroz calmly acknowledged Melchior's raise of concern and said, "If that human is as strong as you reported, it wouldn't be strange for the first army to fail. That said, war is a game of wits. It's not something that can be won with pure strength and certainly not by the strength of one man."

"Let that human waste his strength. It will become his undoing. Powerful as he may seem, he isn't invincible. After all, he is a mere human made of flesh and blood; he can be exhausted," Klaus Albatroz stated with disdain.

Nevertheless, the Blood Ancestor gave him a job to do. Thus, he had to do it well. He didn't want to displease the Blood Ancestor and be put back into forced sleep again.

How many years had it been since he was last awake? Ten thousand years? A hundred thousand years? Or even longer than that?

Regardless, he had to enjoy this opportunity to the fullest.

"Send in the second army to put pressure on the humans. We can't give them a chance to rest. Since you have entered the Divine Blood Realm, I will put you in charge of this second army," Klaus Albatroz instructed.

"I don't care how to lead the second army; I only care about the results. You have three objectives. Pressure the humans, understand their strengths, and, most importantly, report everything back to me."

"I don't know how information was collected before, but it is clear that the information I've read differs from what I've been told regarding Pangea's strengths. We need more accurate information. Do you understand?" Klaus Albatroz stressed.

"Understood, Ancestor!" Melchior solemnly answered.

"Wait," Klaus Albatroz suddenly stopped Melchior from leaving as he raised a question with a sharp look, "Where is your elder brother?"

"This…" Melchior broke into cold sweats.

He immediately understood the Second Progenitor was aware of the fratricide he had committed.

Nevertheless, he was truly unlucky.

How could he have known that the Blood Ancestor would wake up the Second Progenitor?

Fortunately for Melchior, the Second Progenitor didn't really care.

"Since you dare to kill your brother and steal his divinity. I expect better results from you. Don't disappoint me," Klaus Albatroz said strictly.

"Y-Yes, Ancestor! I will not!" Melchior vowed nervously.